FrankenScript :: Lee Gabel's Screenwriting Journal/Blog

What makes this film fun is you truly don’t know what’s going to happen next. The snappy, entertaining dialogue and the chemistry between the characters makes the film work. However, It takes a long time to introduce Pryor’s character. Pryor could have lifted the film higher. The film does have it’s share of laughable moments, [...]

After reading about all these multi-million dollar script sales, I have often wondered how do screenwriters deal with their income. I posed the question to Scott Myers over at Go Into The Story and this was his response: Read the rest of the article here. Thanks, Scott.

Got a solid block of time today and hammered out 17 pages to finish rewrite #3 of my horror script Vermin. It came in at 106 pages, which is a couple more than the previous draft, but seeing as the way I got from beginning to end is a lot different and darker, I’d say [...]

I had such high hopes for this one. While the performances were good, I didn’t laugh as much as I thought I would. It certainly doesn’t have the comic energy of Office Space, one of Mike Judge’s earlier films. I think it suffers from being almost too close to real life. There really are people [...]

I’m on page 83, and it’s pretty clear that I’m going to have to re-register this script with the WGA, WGC and the US Copyright Office. The general story is the same, but the path from point A to B is quite different. Hopefully I’ll have this done by the end of the month.

There’s a ton of them, but they can be avoided if you really try. In fact, if I was a producer of screenwriting software, I’d create a “cliché mode” where the program would warn you whenever you write clichéd content. First the dialogue clichés: I was born ready. Are you sitting down? Let’s get out [...]